Golf Course Overview: Trempealeau Mountain Golf Club By Brian Weis

Golf Course Overview: Trempealeau Mountain Golf Club

Insights From An Insider With Chad & Amy Landis, Owners

By Brian Weis

Local and traveling golfers love to research courses before playing them, whether it is to gain some local knowledge or to set an expectation before their upcoming round. Below is an interview with Chad & Amy Landis who shares some valuable insight about the property, its most talked about holes and the signature dish/drink to consume at the 19th hole.

Provide a brief description of the golf course/property, the terrain and best times of the year to play.
Trempealeau Mountain is a modern links style golf course with pristine bent grass greens. It is playable and challenging to all levels of golfers.

Share with golfers, your most recent awards and golf course improvements.
We are on a two year timeline of re-building all of our tee boxes.

Any tips on playing and reading the greens?
Always stay below the hole and trust your read as the greens roll very true.

Starting on hole #1, are there any tips to get your round off on the right foot?
Try to stay down the left side of the fairway and avoid hitting over the green.

What is your favorite par 5, and how would you recommend playing it?
Hole 18. Recommendation to split the mounds off the tee to hit the fairway, leaving you the opportunity to get to the green in 2. To play it safe 120 yards short of the green to avoid the bunkers and the pond.

What is your favorite par 3, and how would you recommend playing it?
Hole 2.

Hole 2 has a two tier green. When the pin is on the bottom tier, it allows you multiple opportunities to get close to the hole, by landing short and bouncing it on, or flying into the slope behind the hole and spinning it back.

In your opinion, what is the hardest hole and do you have any tips on playing it?
Our hardest and my favorite hole the the par 4 13th. Risk reward off the tee by hitting driver over the water to a narrow fairway between ponds allowing you just a sand wedge to the green. The conservative play to is to lay up with a long iron short of the water and fairway bunkers leaving a mid iron to the green sloping left to right and surrounded with bunkers.

As a golfer plays the final three holes, is there a chance for salvation? (any tips on closing out the round?)
Our last 3 holes consist of a par 3, par 4, and par 5. Each with its own difficulties and rewards.
#16 is a short to mid iron to the largest and flattest green on the course. Birdie can be had here with a well placed shot off the tee.
#17 is a Shortish par 4 but a sharp dogleg left. Try to carry the trees left can leave you in trouble, play it safe to far right will leave you wet. Once safely in the fairway you have a short iron into a long narrow green with chance at birdie.
#18 is a straight away par 5. Find the fairway off the tee and have a chance at going for the green and making birdie. Or lay up to a short iron and have that same chance to birdie with your wedge game. Trouble lurks both right and left as the fairways are lined with tall fescue leaving it hard to find your ball, let alone giving yourself a chance at birdie. Played appropriately and you have 3 good chances at redemption.

Contact Course
Trempealeau Mountain Golf Club
W24411 Fairway Lane
Trempealeau, WI, 54661
608-534-7417

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About: Brian Weis

Brian Weis is the mastermind behind GolfTrips.com, a vast network of golf travel and directory sites covering everything from the rolling fairways of Wisconsin to the sunbaked desert layouts of Arizona. If there’s a golf destination worth visiting, chances are, Brian has written about it, played it, or at the very least, found a way to justify a "business trip" there.

As a card-carrying member of the Golf Writers Association of America (GWAA), International Network of Golf (ING), Golf Travel Writers of America (GTWA), International Golf Travel Writers Association (IGTWA), and The Society of Hickory Golfers (SoHG), Brian has the credentials to prove that talking about golf is his full-time job. In 2016, his peers even handed him The Shaheen Cup, a prestigious award in golf travel writing—essentially the Masters green jacket for guys who don’t hit the range but still know where the best 19th holes are.

Brian’s love for golf goes way back. As a kid, he competed in junior and high school golf, only to realize that his dreams of a college golf scholarship had about the same odds as a 30-handicap making a hole-in-one. Instead, he took the more practical route—working on the West Bend Country Club grounds crew to fund his University of Wisconsin education. Little did he know that mowing greens and fixing divots would one day lead to a career writing about the best courses on the planet.

In 2004, Brian turned his golf passion into a business, launching GolfWisconsin.com. Three years later, he expanded his vision, and GolfTrips.com was born—a one-stop shop for golf travel junkies looking for their next tee time. Today, his empire spans all 50 states, and 20+ international destinations.

On the course, Brian is a weekend warrior who oscillates between a 5 and 9 handicap, depending on how much he's been traveling (or how generous he’s feeling with his scorecard). His signature move" A high, soft fade that his playing partners affectionately (or not-so-affectionately) call "The Weis Slice." But when he catches one clean, his 300+ yard drives remind everyone that while he may write about golf for a living, he can still send a ball into the next zip code with the best of them.

Whether he’s hunting down the best public courses, digging up hidden gems, or simply outdriving his buddies, Brian Weis is living proof that golf is more than a game—it’s a way of life.